Poland's memory wars

Poland's memory wars: essays on illiberalism

by Harper, Jo, (Journalist)

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This volume of essays and interviews by Polish, British, and American academics and journalists provides an overview of current Polish politics for both the informed and nonspecialist reader. The essays approach the questions why and how PiS: Law and Justice, the party of Kaczynski, returned to power and why and how it is doing what it is doing while in power. They help understand and make sense of how ""history"" plays a key role in Polish public life and politics. The language about PiS in We…

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  • Full title :Poland's memory wars : essays on illiberalism / edited by Jo Harper.

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This volume of essays and interviews by Polish, British, and American academics and journalists provides an overview of current Polish politics for both the informed and nonspecialist reader. The essays approach the questions why and how PiS: Law and Justice, the party of Kaczynski, returned to power and why and how it is doing what it is doing while in power. They help understand and make sense of how ""history"" plays a key role in Polish public life and politics. The language about PiS in Western media tends to rework old stereotypes about Eastern Europe that had lain largely dormant for so.

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  • Publication Date:©2018

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (x, 284 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9637326553, 9789637326554
  • oclc:on1032290433
  • LC Classification:JN6769.A5758
  • Dewey Decimal:324.2438/03

Table of Contents

Never mind the boleks! / Jo Harper -- What's finished, what's beginning? / Andrzej Rychard -- Authoritarian drive in Poland / David Ost -- The triumph of national communism / Brian Porter-Szucs -- Polish right-wing populism / Artur Lipinski & Agnieszka Stepinska -- Crisis, what crisis? / Nicholas Richardson -- Foreign relations in the age of Kaczynski / Jan Mus -- The new romantics / Joanna Srednicka -- The history men / Jan Darasz -- Poland's culture of commemoration / Ewa Stanczyk -- Poland's theater of death / Dariusz Czaja -- The quest for the "normal" family / Urszula Chowaniec -- Straight talking / Tomasz Basiuk -- An identity reset / Remi Adekoya -- History as we may wish it to be / Jan Gross -- 966 and all that / Neal Ascherson -- The more things change, the more they stay the same / Mikolaj Kunicki -- History repeats itself / Mateusz Kijowski -- Understand the war, understand Poland / Pawel Ukielski -- Defenders of the faith / Neal Pease.

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Subjects

Collective memory -- Political aspects … Mémoire collective -- Aspect politique … Platforma Obywatelska (Political party) Poland Poland -- Politics and government -- 19… Political culture Political culture -- Poland POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process Politics and government Pologne -- Politique et gouvernement --… Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (Political party) Since 1989

Writers

Harper, Jo, (Journalist)

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